Step Five on the Road to Immortality: Repentance from Dead Works
“To depart from evil is understanding.” Job 28:28. “Knowledge of the holy is understanding.” Proverbs 9:10
Chapter 26 of the book Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality
So far we have taken some very necessary steps on the road to immortality. We have discovered that Yahweh-Is-Savior is that Road to Everlasting Life. We have learned how to be in awe of Him, which is the obtaining of wisdom. We have learned His true name, His nature, and His eternal purpose and plan.
But all these steps have amounted to the mere acquisition of knowledge—extremely important, of course, and necessary, but knowledge nonetheless. In this next step, however, we must do and not just know. We will learn to put this knowledge into practice. We now start doing what we know to do.
Talk is cheap; action is expensive. “If you know these things, happy are you if you do them,” said the Master. Conversely, if we gain knowledge of the holy things and do not begin to do them and walk in them, then we will not be happy. …The latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. II Peter 2:21.
Receiving knowledge of the high, sanctified, set-apart things of God is the gaining of understanding. Now at first this does not make much sense to us because we have man’s definition of what understanding is, much like we had man’s definition of what wisdom was in step one. When we think of the word “understanding,” we think of comprehending something—the ability of making sense of something. But this is man’s interpretation. When we begin to attain knowledge of the holy things, the secret things, the things that the Supreme Being reserves only for those who fear Him and are awe of Him—that is understanding! And this knowledge of the sanctified things, the things that the Almighty has set apart and reserved for only a few—that is understanding and that will bring us into the desire to flee the evil of our ways, to depart from the old life and get into the flow of His new life within us. …The knowledge of the holy is understanding. Proverbs 9:10…To depart from evil is understanding. Job 28:28. Understanding is knowing about His true ways which leads us to depart from evil.
True knowledge about the Most High’s sacred truths will lead us into doing something about it; it will lead us to fleeing the evil. But how do we do really ever be rid of the sin in our lives?
Immortality Road 